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That sounds good in principle, but is there a more private configuration that doesnt send DNS resolutions to cloudfare, google et al. ie. avoid BigTech tracking, and not wanting DOH.

dnsmasq with a list of smaller trusted DNS providers sounds perfect, as long as it is not considered bad etiquette to spam multiple DNS providers for every resolution?

But where to find a trusted list of privacy focused DNS resolvers. The couple I tried from random internet advice seemed unstable.



There are no good private DNS configurations, but if you don't trust the big caching recursive resolvers then I'd consider just running your own at home. Unbound is easy to set up and you'll probably never notice a speed difference.


I trust my isp far more than I trust cloudflare and google


Why? Some were injecting ads, blocking services, degrading video and other wrongdoings.


Maybe their ISPs don't do that. There are many ISPs on the Earth.


Mine doesn’t do that, mine is very transparent about what they do, what they will support, what laws they have to follow, what guidelines they can ignore, what logging they do, and if I have issues I jump on IRC and talk to them.

If I have issues with cloudflare what do I do?


I've reviewed the privacy policy and performance of various DoH servers, and determined in my opinion that Cloudflare and Google both provide privacy-respecting policies.

I believe that they follow their published policies and have reasonable security teams. They're also both popular services, which mitigates many of the other types of DNS tracking possible.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns...


NextDNS. Generous free tier, very affordable paid tier. Happy customer for several years and I've never noticed an outage.


Likewise; they make it easy to use across my devices, each with bespoke configuration.


This



I haven’t had any problems with OpenNIC: https://opennic.org/

> OpenNIC (also referred to as the OpenNIC Project) is a user owned and controlled top-level Network Information Center offering a non-national alternative to traditional Top-Level Domain (TLD) registries; such as ICANN.


Using DNSCrypt with anonymized DNS could be an option: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Anonymized-D...


Quad9 and NextDNS are usually thrown around.


You can just run unbound or similar and do your own recursive resolving.


dnsforge.de comes to mind.




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